The best Francisco Jambrina’s movies

Francisco Jambrina

Francisco Jambrina

04/01/1902- 21/01/1967
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The Young and the Damned

The Young and the Damned
8.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/12/1950
  • Character: School Farm Director
A group of juvenile delinquents lives a criminal, violent life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

¡A volar, joven!

¡A volar, joven!
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1947
  • Character: Capitan
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

The Great Madcap

The Great Madcap
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/11/1949
  • Character: Gregorio de la Mata
Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!

You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/09/1940
  • Character: Leonardo del Paso
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

Gran Casino

Gran Casino
5.8/10
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Mexicanos al grito de guerra

Mexicanos al grito de guerra
7/10
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.

The Black Sheep

The Black Sheep
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/12/1949
  • Character: Sotero
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.

El Supersabio

El Supersabio
7/10
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition

Fever Mounts at El Pao

Fever Mounts at El Pao
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/12/1959
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.

Night Falls

Night Falls
7.1/10
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.

Soledad's Shawl

Soledad's Shawl
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/11/1952
  • Character: Dr. Alfonso Gómez Ugarte
In the lobby of the hospital of the City of Mexico, Dr. Alberto Robles receives a letter from his friend Juan the priest of Santa Cruz. In the text, the priest tells him that they both lived before his departure, and the reason why Alberto decided to leave the town where he struggled against gullibility and ignorance of the people towards their science and against David, chieftain who abused his power by invading land, such as a farmer Roque Suazo, who leaves the town after the death of his mother for being staffed by a healer instead of a doctor. Later, Roque returns to fight their land and falls in love with Soledad, a peasant who is in love with Alberto. Soledad pregnant from rape and dies during childbirth, so Alberto decides to go to the city.

Monte de piedad

Monte de piedad
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1951
  • Character: Amigo de Rodrigo
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

Muertos de miedo

Muertos de miedo
4.8/10
Capulina chip and with the desire to be detectives, work and study to achieve their purpose in this specialty agency. Alma, millionaire detective and vocation, owner of the agency, hires Chip and Capulina after they have been presented and promoted its examination. He entrusts his first mission is to follow the trail to Rostov, famous jewel thief and murderer, for which there is a hefty reward.

La insaciable

La insaciable
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/06/1947

Ladrones de niños

Ladrones de niños
6.9/10
  • Release: 17/07/1958
  • Character: El General, jefe de policía
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

El ahijado de la muerte

El ahijado de la muerte
6.8/10
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.

Las tres perfectas casadas

Las tres perfectas casadas
7.3/10
The Spanish language romantic drama Las Tres Perfectas Casadas features Mexican film star Arturo de Cordova as one of the points in a love triangle.

Maternidad imposible

Maternidad imposible
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/1955
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

Felipe de Jesús

Felipe de Jesús
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/08/1949
  • Character: Capitan Matias de Landecho
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Mujeres sin mañana

Mujeres sin mañana
7.2/10
  • Release: 05/09/1951
  • Character: Horacio
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

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